Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G. Williams Judicial Center on the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
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Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G....

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G. Williams Judicial Center on the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
Photo: San Antonio Express-News

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G....

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G. Williams Judicial Center on the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
Photo: San Antonio Express-News

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G....

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G. Williams Judicial Center on the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
Photo: San Antonio Express-News

Media members gets a closer view of the heavily fortified M.G....

Selected through a lottery, media members head to the M.G. Williams Judicial Center for the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
Photo: San Antonio Express-News

Selected through a lottery, media members head to the M.G. Williams...

Media members and vehicular traffic go through security at the heavily fortified M.G. Williams Judicial Center on the first day of the capital murder trial of U.S. Army Lt. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Hasan is facing 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
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FILE- In this Nov. 10, 2009, file photo, soldiers salute as they honor victims of the Fort Hood shooting at a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas. Maj. Nidal Hasan will stand trial, in a court-martial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, for the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 people wounded on Nov. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, File)
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FILE- In this Nov. 10, 2009, file photo, soldiers salute as they...

FILE- In this Nov. 5, 2010, file photo, Staff Sgt. Joy Clark of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment takes a moment to run her fingers over the engravings of the names of her fellow soldiers at a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, in Fort Hood, Texas. Maj. Nidal Hasan will stand trial, in a court-martial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, for the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 people wounded on Nov. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Sonya N. Hebert, File)
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Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a statement to the media during the first break on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
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Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a...

Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a statement to the media during the first break on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a...

Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a statement to the media during the first break on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, Express-News

Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, makes a...

This courtroom sketch shows military prosecutor Lt. Col. Steve Henricks, right, speaking as Nidal Malik Hasan, center, and presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn look on during his court-martial Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Forth Hood, Texas. Hasan is representing himself against charges of murder and attempted murder for the 2009 attack that left 13 people dead at Forth Hood. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

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This courtroom sketch shows military prosecutor Lt. Col. Steve...

Members of the media photograph the rendering of Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford Jr. testifying on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. The rendering is by artist Brigitte Woosley, of New Braunfels.
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Members of the media photograph the rendering of Staff Sgt. Alonzo...

New Braunfels artist Brigitte Woosley's rendering of Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford Jr. testifying on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

New Braunfels artist Brigitte Woosley's rendering of Staff Sgt....

New Braunfels artist Brigitte Woosley's rendering of Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford Jr. testifying on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

New Braunfels artist Brigitte Woosley's rendering of Staff Sgt....

Photojournalist Breighann Walls, center, and reporter Markeya Thomas, right, both with KXXV Killeen's ABC affiliate, wait for a press conference as members of the media photograph the rendering of Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford Jr. testifying on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. The rendering is by artist Brigitte Woosley, of New Braunfels.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Photojournalist Breighann Walls, center, and reporter Markeya...

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, goes over his notes before making a statement to the media after the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan was abruptly recessed at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, goes over...

Photojournalists go through a security checkpoint to get a closer to the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Photojournalists go through a security checkpoint to get a closer...

Soldiers stand guard at a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Soldiers stand guard at a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence...

A soldier walks to check in a vehicle at a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
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A soldier walks to check in a vehicle at a security checkpoint...

A soldier holds up a gate to allow a vehicle into a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
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A soldier holds up a gate to allow a vehicle into a security...

A soldier holds up a gate to allow a vehicle into a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

A soldier holds up a gate to allow a vehicle into a security...

A soldier checks the undercarriage of a vehicle at a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
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A soldier checks the undercarriage of a vehicle at a security...

Richard Rosen, a Professor of Law at Texas Tech University and a former judge advocate at Fort Hood, talks to the media after the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan was abruptly recessed at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
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Richard Rosen, a Professor of Law at Texas Tech University and a...

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, makes a statement to the media after the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan was abruptly recessed at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, makes a...

Richard Rosen, a Professor of Law at Texas Tech University and a former judge advocate at Fort Hood, answers questions from the media after the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan was abruptly recessed at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Richard Rosen, a Professor of Law at Texas Tech University and a...

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, makes a statement to the media after the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan was abruptly recessed at Fort Hood in Killeen on Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
Photo: Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News

Tom Rheinlander, Fort Hood Director of Public Affairs, makes a...

A public affairs officer photographs the media as they wait for Tom Rheinlander, Director of Public Affairs at Fort Hood, to make a statement during the first break on the first day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood in Killeen on Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
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A public affairs officer photographs the media as they wait for Tom...

FORT HOOD - Through an interpreter, Juan Velez spoke of a father's heartbreak, losing both his daughter and unborn grandchild in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation.

“It hurt me down to the bottom of my soul,” Velez, speaking in Spanish, said through an interpreter during the punishment phase Monday of the capital murder trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan.

Pvt. Francheska Velez was one of 13 people killed in the Nov. 5, 2009 attack. 1st Sgt. James Cox, another witness to testify Monday, said Velez was serving in Iraq but was sent back to Fort Hood in October 2009 after tests confirmed her pregnancy.

Velez, who had taken a furlough and returned home to Chicago a few months earlier, was only about six weeks from completing her tour with her unit.

Cox said he wanted to keep Velez in Iraq, but regulations required she be sent home right away. The soldiers who served with her have never recovered from her death, he said. Velez was fatally shot while going through processing after her deployment.

“Private Velez had a heart,” Cox said. “She had an energy inside of her, and everyone loved her.”

Hasan was convicted Friday of more than 40 counts of murder and premeditated murder. The 13-member jury hearing the testimony will determine whether Hasan will receive the death sentence or a life prison term.

Another witness, Angela Rivera, who had been married for seven years to Maj. Libardo E. Caraveo, said she tried to call him from Virginia as soon as she learned there had been a shooting at Fort Hood, where he was being processed for deployment.

She got his voicemail.

“And at that minute, I know that something was wrong,” said Rivera, now of Tucson, Ariz.

Caraveo also was killed in the shooting.

The morning after the shooting, two soldiers, including an Army chaplain, arrived at Rivera's home to officially notify the family. She recalled saying, “I knew it, I knew it.”

“Because he did not call me back. And he always did,” she said.

Rivera said she has used a play therapist to help their 2-year-old son understand “that Daddy was not coming back.” A daughter that Rivera had from a previous marriage has had therapy and medication for depression after she was cutting herself and contemplating suicide.

Rivera stepped down from the stand sobbing and acknowledged one of the prosecutors, but did not look at Hasan.

Another widow, Shoua Her, who was married for five years to Pfc. Kham Xiong, discussed the impact of the shooting on her and their three young children.

She and her husband had talked of having more children, buying a home and growing old together. But she said, "All that was stripped away from me. I purchased my first home last year, and it saddened me that he was not here with me."

"The past few years haven't been easy," Her said, looking back on being a single mother of three young children, playing the role of father as well.

"I miss him a lot. I miss his soft, gentle touch," she said. "I feel dead, yet alive. He was my other half, my best friend, husband and father of my kids."

The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, strictly enforced her rules of decorum in court. Outside the jury's presence, she called out a soldier in the front row of the gallery for talking while she was instructing spectators to remain quiet in the courtroom. Later, after the jury was sent out, she told the prosecution team that same soldier, a member of their support staff, was seen “smacking gum” in court.

Earlier Monday, Osborn again asked Hasan if he was sure he wanted to continue representing himself in the trial.

“You understand that you are staking your life on the decisions that you make?” Osborn asked Hasan in a hearing outside the jury's presence.